“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”

—  Alexander Cockburn

"Bwana Vistas," Harper’s (August 1985), reprinted in Corruptions of Empire (1988).

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Leftist journalist and writer 1941–2012

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